<div dir="ltr">A rapid review of senders indicates that Character asSymbol seems rather rare in a trunk image.<br><br>I found <br>#initTextConstants<br>#inOutdent:delta: (Character tab asSymbol asText which is rather crooked way of avoiding an allocation - String tab would allocate a new Object).<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/9/4 Levente Uzonyi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:leves@elte.hu" target="_blank">leves@elte.hu</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
There's another user of OneCharacterSymbols: Character >> #asSymbol. I don't know how often it's used (my guess is that it's rarely used), or how much slower it would be, if we were removing OneCharacterSymbols. The implementation would change from<br>
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^Symbol internCharacter: self<br>
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^Symbol intern: self asString<br>
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Which means that an extra String will be created, and the lookup is done in the WeakSets, instead of an Array/WeakArray.<br>
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Levente<br>
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On Wed, 4 Sep 2013, Nicolas Cellier wrote:<br>
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Well, as you were the last modifier, I prefer to have your advice :)<br>
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Nicolas<br>
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2013/9/4 Levente Uzonyi <<a href="mailto:leves@elte.hu" target="_blank">leves@elte.hu</a>><br>
On Wed, 4 Sep 2013, <a href="mailto:commits@source.squeak.org" target="_blank">commits@source.squeak.org</a> wrote:<br>
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A new version of Collections was added to project The Inbox:<br>
<a href="http://source.squeak.org/inbox/Collections-nice.530.mcz" target="_blank">http://source.squeak.org/<u></u>inbox/Collections-nice.530.mcz</a><br>
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==================== Summary ====================<br>
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Name: Collections-nice.530<br>
Author: nice<br>
Time: 4 September 2013, 2:21:28.852 am<br>
UUID: d732aa23-1c77-4c1e-abc0-<u></u>d8d4506b7f9f<br>
Ancestors: Collections-ul.529<br>
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Fix this:<br>
self assert: (allSymbols select: [:s | s = '+']) size = 1.<br>
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1) It is un-necessary to enumerate the 1-char symbols, they already are in SymbolTable (the first time they were created via #findIntern: or by virtue of last #rehash) !<br>
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2) We can use a WeekArray rather than an Array because there is no point in keeping a reference to unused 1-char symbols.<br>
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Maybe we should get rid of OneCharacterSymbols class var, but I didn't dare...<br>
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I say we should nuke it. The only user is Symbol class >> #selectorsContaining:, but that method is pretty much broken:<br>
- it uses OneCharacterSymbols only for infix selectors<br>
- it can't find infix selectors longer than 2 characters<br>
- it tries to optimize some stuff, but wastes cycles on other stuff<br>
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Levente<br>
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=============== Diff against Collections-ul.529 ===============<br>
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Item was changed:<br>
----- Method: Symbol class>>allSymbols (in category 'access') -----<br>
allSymbols<br>
"Answer all interned symbols"<br>
^Array streamContents:[:s|<br>
s nextPutAll: NewSymbols.<br>
- s nextPutAll: OneCharacterSymbols.<br>
s nextPutAll: SymbolTable.<br>
].<br>
!<br>
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Item was changed:<br>
----- Method: Symbol class>>initialize (in category 'class initialization') -----<br>
initialize<br>
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"Symbol initialize"<br>
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Symbol rehash.<br>
+ OneCharacterSymbols := WeakArray new: 256.<br>
+ (0 to: 255) do: [ :byte | byte asCharacter asSymbol].<br>
- OneCharacterSymbols := nil.<br>
- OneCharacterSymbols := (1 to: 256) collect: [ :i | (i - 1) asCharacter asSymbol].<br>
Smalltalk addToShutDownList: self.<br>
!<br>
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Item was changed:<br>
----- Method: Symbol class>>internCharacter: (in category 'instance creation') -----<br>
internCharacter: aCharacter<br>
aCharacter asciiValue > 256 ifTrue:[^self intern: aCharacter asString].<br>
+ ^(OneCharacterSymbols at: aCharacter asciiValue + 1) ifNil: [OneCharacterSymbols at: aCharacter asciiValue + 1 put: (self intern: aCharacter asString)]<br>
- OneCharacterSymbols ifNil: [^self intern: aCharacter asString].<br>
- ^OneCharacterSymbols at: aCharacter asciiValue + 1<br>
!<br>
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Item was changed:<br>
----- Method: Symbol class>>selectorsContaining: (in category 'access') -----<br>
selectorsContaining: aString<br>
"Answer a list of selectors that contain aString within them. Case-insensitive. Does return symbols that begin with a capital letter."<br>
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| size selectorList ascii |<br>
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selectorList := OrderedCollection new.<br>
(size := aString size) = 0 ifTrue: [^selectorList].<br>
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aString size = 1 ifTrue:<br>
[<br>
ascii := aString first asciiValue.<br>
+ ascii < 128 ifTrue: [(OneCharacterSymbols at: ascii+1) ifNotNil: [:s | selectorList add: s]]<br>
- ascii < 128 ifTrue: [selectorList add: (OneCharacterSymbols at: ascii+1)]<br>
].<br>
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(aString first isLetter or: [aString first isDigit]) ifFalse:<br>
[<br>
aString size = 2 ifTrue:<br>
[Symbol hasInterned: aString ifTrue:<br>
[:s | selectorList add: s]].<br>
^selectorList<br>
].<br>
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selectorList := selectorList copyFrom: 2 to: selectorList size.<br>
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self allSymbolTablesDo: [:each |<br>
each size >= size ifTrue:<br>
[(each findSubstring: aString in: each startingAt: 1<br>
matchTable: CaseInsensitiveOrder) > 0<br>
ifTrue: [selectorList add: each]]].<br>
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^selectorList reject: [:each | "reject non-selectors, but keep ones that begin with an uppercase"<br>
each numArgs < 0 and: [each asString withFirstCharacterDownshifted numArgs < 0]].<br>
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"Symbol selectorsContaining: 'scon'"!<br>
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